Sunday, August 21, 2005
Yup.
Can't say it any better than Andy McCarthy at NRO.
Increasing the size of the Caliphate is Osama's goal, not ours. Or so I naively and mistakenly thought.
To be sure, sometimes you have to retreat or avoid an important battle for tactical reasons. But finishing one stage of the war by giving the enemy exactly what he wanted is not a tactical detour. It is self-imposed defeat.
And when America and Israel commit partial suicide at the same moment, Allah is ecstatic. ¶ 8:39 AM
Can't say it any better than Andy McCarthy at NRO.
Increasing the size of the Caliphate is Osama's goal, not ours. Or so I naively and mistakenly thought.
To be sure, sometimes you have to retreat or avoid an important battle for tactical reasons. But finishing one stage of the war by giving the enemy exactly what he wanted is not a tactical detour. It is self-imposed defeat.
And when America and Israel commit partial suicide at the same moment, Allah is ecstatic. ¶ 8:39 AM
